2,116 Quotes About Pride

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for others but not his virtuous conduct. For the great-souled man is justified in despising other people - his estimates are correct; but most proud men have no good ground for their pride.

A lot of work and thinking goes into my DJing. I want the entire night to progress seamlessly and when I have to adapt the energy on the fly for the crowd on any given night, I can do so with harmonic mixes that Ive practiced over and over again. I am far from the only DJ that does this and its something I take pride in being able to do.

We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian

What is modesty but inverted pride?

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair

Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.